Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Recently I have been getting into doing pirate missions in nullsec now and again as a hobby...they're quite fun, actually, and I enjoy the different batch of missions they offer. However, I've been thinking that the level of variety in the game in regards to missioning is kind of stale, so it might be interesting for them to add new types of 'special' missions to each race.

Angel Cartel and Guristas could have special 'heist' missions that would only be available through storyline agents. They would entail traveling to one of the bank or holding NPC corps in the game, and doing an elaborate multi-part mission where you have to do something similar to a lvl 5 haul mission, except you dump the loot at a designated drop-off point, and you get a GIANT payout at the end, something on the order of 100+ mil.

Amarr and Blood Raiders could have Artifact hunts where you have to scan down a certain site within a designated constellation to crack a giant, ancient temple from some long-forgotten annal of their history. You'd basically be doing the equivalent of a dungeon run with a 'temple raid' feel to it, and fight automated temple defenses which include new unique rogue drone models labeled things like, "Ancient alvus nuker" or something along the lines like that. At the end, you'd have to crack open a can with a relic analyzer as you would with the old mechanic, and get loads of valuable salvage along with the mission-specific item.

Minmatar and Sansha would have high-powered combat events, wherein you would have to fight a gauntlet of heavyf NPCs as you would in a particularly crazy lvl 5, with an officer or NPC supercap at the end (gallente used to have a lvl 5 where you'd have to take down a fully-armed erebus the serpentis stole; that's my inspiration). These would be extremely focused towards being group events, and would require a well-trained group to run.

Gallente, Caldari and Serpentis special story missions would be research/hacking where you would have to go special sites across the cluster to find goods, whether they be tech or drug-related, and you'd hack loot from well-guarded research facilities you'd have to build to put together towards the end. Caldari would focus on building advanced components for a random t3 subsystems, each non-caldari which your agent would take for study, and give you a very high-level faction module for compensation. You are welcome to keep the sub and use or sell it if you'd like if it's worth more than the faction item you're being given, which would generally focus on being large-sized or something like a BCS.
The Gallente special arc would focus on raiding rogue drone hives for special drone components to eventually lead to getting a high-level 'augmented' drone bpc or a gallente fighter or fighter bomber bpc with particularly excellent production stats.
The Serpentis special arc would focus on acquiring special moon materials from NPC extraction facilities, to where you can build some very high-level 'strong' combat boosters at the end.


Each of these would be a potential special storyline mission; you wouldn't get them all the time as you would with normal missions, but the main idea would be having a different set of racial-specific story missions to provide a little more flavor and excitement to storyline missions.

That's more of a programming issue than anything else, but I do agree with the basic principle that more variety is essential. I proposed these because they DO sound quite fun to me, and would focue on immersion. The original mission agent where you even had "financial" agents were good, but they should have increased mission variety instead of nerfing it.

I think that you can have a furious debate over the "adequate" level of PvE content in Eve. Clearly CCP has had ten almost 11 years to study this issue and has not yet made additional PvE content much of a priority (with all due respects to Incursions).

If CCP increased the number of missions to 50 or 100, the player base that enjoys that type of content would eventually clamor for more content. For example see WoW.

CCP has decided, whether you agree or not, that Eve will primarily be a player driven content game, and goes to great lengths to provide players with tools to create conflicts. CCP realized early on that creating content is a slippery slope ending with a never ending conclusion. Again they made the decision. All you have to do is see the changes that are proposed for the summer expansion and see that CCP is trying to make all the ships viable to the players and try to cut down on min maxing or the king of the hill or the best of the best mentality, and every ship fits within the rock, paper, scissors paradigm.

My suggestion or two cents is that the players would be better served by thinking of ways to integrate PvE content that dove tails to PvP content. Now to put my money where my mouth is.

Down the Rabbit Hole:

Anamoly with multiple entrances in up to 5 other systems. Each entrance must be unlocked before the final "room" is opened. Within the room is a cache of goodies that most pilots would love to have so its a prize worthy of multiple people putting forth the time and effort. The object is to clear all five and clear the interior room. The interior room follows the rules of wh space -- No local, and massive spacial effects.

PvE content? Absolutely, CCP has the tools to create dead space and can set aside empty wormhole space for the final room.

PvP, stick a small percentage chance to get a tech II BPO and you will have everyone's attention.

Also you can't get into the final room without unlocking the other gates. Those other gates are likely to be contested. The final room can be most any thing from a hub style bash lasting several hours to a knarly mother ship with big guns and an aggressive AI. Ganking is allowed and certainly encouraged, and just because you got the goods in your cargo hold doesn't mean you make it out alive.

The amount of opposition CCP would face from the entitled L4 missioners in hi sec would keep this proposal from taking flight. There are people who actually depend on the predictability of these missions and are very vocal.

Honestly, do you believe that this is what players really want? I know CCP has this belief that if one introduces the delights of PVP to the average HS player they will race rapidly to LS and pvp their brains out.
Well after many years of trying, it has not worked yet.

I enjoy a varied play style and sometimes even do missions in KS for a bit of light relief.


To a mission runner who asks for some extra variety in his meals,a dog turd put on top of the same meal does not do the job.
A new meal with the same garnish will be equally disliked.


making things harder, less satisfying and simply a pain, is not going to endear them to their play base.

Spot-on, +1.

Adding new agent types would be a good start too, and have them have more variables with how the mission spawns, what's in it, etc.

Bollocks to being able to follow eve-survival. The agent tells you the enemies you expect to face (though I'd personally like surprises thrown in). What more should anyone need?

I'm pretty hardline on missions...make them random and make them challenging. Much more fun that way and they can be tweaked easily to have fewer more PvP like opponents too as a lead into true PvP

General pve and role playing system of eve is boring and almost non existed.I would like to see random generated missions and battles that a boss with random battleship or tech 3 ship would appear in level 4s missions and could lose your ship if you would accept such missions.Maybe we call them level 4.5 missions.Also the story and scenario in missions is again boring and non existed which also we would be able to see some more stuff like go there and salvage or search for special site,then you must go fight ,then something else and stuff like that that would follow a storyline .This game has so much potential and can reach to other level of gameplay.

+1 from me i liked your idea especially the artifact thing

Agree on that my friend since if you can afford easier your ships you will go do more pvp.If you getting bored doing pve and you just play some hours to pay your plex then we ll never see more people pvp.PVE is the base of most games even if some people like or not.